Re: [PLUG] SAGE/USENIX

[Magnus <chrish@trilug.org>]

On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 04:52 PM, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> It also buys you a vote in standards on sysadmin certification

I've never hired anyone who mentioned any sort of SAGE certification on 
their resume.  Doesn't seem to carry much weight.

> and
> a bit of control over your salary (many companies determine what
> salary to set for sysadmins directly by the guidelines that SAGE
> reports after it's annual salary poll).

I've also not run into this (at least not SAGE's numbers anyway).

Besides, I took a real hit in the wallet taking my current job so I 
don't want to negatively skew any poll. ;-)

> And I think you're too quick to discount having access to an
> academic-style cultural community of Unix systems administrators,
> developers, and users (the magazine, junk mail, and conferences).

Eh.  Unix sysadmin communities are a dime a dozen.  $150 for just one 
is just a tad overpriced.

--

C. Magnus Hedemark
"From the Fury of the Norsemen please Deliver us, Oh Lord"

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